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  <text>First of all, BeyondCompare is the best file comparison tool, hands down. If you don't have it, you should. Once you have it, you can integrate it with ClearCase.

To install it, go to the link below and run BeyondCompare2.4.3.exe. The license file is in Siemens AG site license.txt.
If you want the HTML and Word plug-ins, copy the 2 folders under BeyondComparePlugins to the install directory, usually C:\Program Files\Beyond Compare 2. Go to the 2 folders and follow the instructions in the read me files.

To integrate with ClearCase, go to the ClearDiffBC folder and follow the Readme instructions. A couple of hints:
&lt;ol&gt;
	&lt;li&gt; Save a copy of your current map file.&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Copy map_diff_only to lib\mgrs\map if you want BeyondCompare for diff's only (recommended).&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Copy map_includes_merge to lib\mgrs\map if you want BeyondCompare for merges also (not recommended).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

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  <last_update>2007-10-04T00:52:36.8630806Z</last_update>
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      <date>2007-07-06T09:07:33</date>
      <author>scottb</author>
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      <text>A couple of clarifications:

ClearDiffBC is found in \\Aabmaf8a\install\softwares\BeyondCompare\ClearDiffBC

The readme.txt file specifies the clearcase root directory as: "C:\Atria\Bin" - However, in our case it is usually something like "C:\Clearcase\ClearCase\bin"

"lib\mgrs\" is found in C:\Clearcase\ClearCase\lib\mgrs</text>
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      <date>2007-08-14T16:08:13</date>
      <author>David Ei</author>
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      <text>This DevNote was not what I remembered doing, so I found Tom's email and added it:

I (Tom H) found a way to integrate BC into clearcase to compare text and SOME xml files (it doesnâ€™t work with uistrings.xml).

For XML, you need the BC plugin from the attached file, install as per the instructions.

Go to your clearcase map directory, on my PC it is C:\Clearcase\ClearCase\lib\mgrs and make a copy of the map file.

For text compares change the map file.
From: text_file_delta  xcompare    ..\..\bin\cleardiffmrg.exe
To: text_file_delta    xcompare    C:\Progra~1\Beyond~1\bc2.exe

For XML files
From: _xml             xcompare    ..\..\bin\xmldiffmrg.exe
To: _xml               xcompare    C:\Progra~1\Beyond~1\bc2.exe

From: _xml2            xcompare    ..\..\bin\xmldiffmrg.exe
To: _xml2              xcompare    C:\Progra~1\Beyond~1\bc2.exe</text>
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